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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
1. The Conservative Party has proposed what fix to the British welfare system?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Conservatives have proposed making unemployment benefits conditional and imposing tough sanctions on people that have been out of work. Under the new plan, called the Help to Work program, people who are unemployed for three years will have to earn their government income through volunteer work, going daily to a job center, or going through other programs to handle why they do not have a job. Critics argue that the plan will not work and that mandatory work programs are ineffective.[/toggle]
2. On Monday, former Trek executive Mary Burke announced that she will challenge this sitting Republican governor in 2014.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Burke announced that she will challenge Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in the November 2014 elections. Democrats view Walker as vulnerable and the Wisconsin governorship as a potential pick up opportunity for their party.[/toggle]
3. Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe took a political risk last week by raising this tax.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Abe announced that he would raise the consumption tax from 5% to 8%. The tax has not been raised since 1997.[/toggle]
4. President Obama made headlines last week by saying that this NFL team should consider changing its name.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The Washington Redskins[/toggle]
5. Experts have recently argued that Spain needs to change its time zone. Spain currently has a time zone with which European power?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Spain currently shares a time zone with Germany, which dates back to the rule of fascist leader Francisco Franco. The suggested time zone change would align Spanish time with Great Britain.[/toggle]
6. Three Supreme Court justices will turn 80 before Barack Obama’s term in office ends. Who are they?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If President Obama were to appoint a replacement for Scalia and Kennedy before the end of his term it would shift the Court to the left for the first time in decades.[/toggle]
7. As Twitter prepares to go public, what major criticism concerning the composition of its board of directors has been levied against it?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Twitter has been criticized for not having a female member on its board of directors.[/toggle]
8. Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai is being considered for the Nobel Peace Prize for what reason?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Yousafzai is a teenage girl that advocates for female education in Pakistan. She was shot by the Pakistani Taliban last year for taking a bus to school.[/toggle]
9. Libyans claimed that their sovereignty was violated last week after American special forces did what?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]American special forces conducted a special raid and apprehended Nazih al-Ruqai, an al-Qaeda member, who has been connected to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.[/toggle]
10. The Obama administration found itself on the defensive over the government shutdown when it barred veterans from visiting this Washington D.C. landmark.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The World War II Memorial[/toggle]